>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> >> It would be reall nice if we had a generally accepted library with sane
> >> interface that could be used by everything. Then the changes would be much
> >> easier. Right now we have all sorts of spiffy little utilities (seriously
> >> resembling DOS BBS collections - bad symptom in itself), each of them
> >> doing its own thing in its own way. Yes, if they would directly use the
> >> kernel memory it would be even worse. But even in the current form it's a
> >> mess.
> >
> > libgtop from the GNOME project
>
> I am sorry to say that libgtop is no longer LGPL software.
> It is also a lowest-common-denominator library AFAIK.
The latter isn't too bad, but the former... Yep, it's a killer. Sorry,
I've missed that when I looked at the thing. <shudder> it's their right,
indeed, but it's damn silly. LGPL here would be almost ideal - that's
exactly the case when you don't want binary-only code linking it
statically. But GPL for system library... Defeats the point.
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